IPM is
established in January 2002. It’s goal is to develop and to produce
electrostatic Nano Micro ESP or laser perforation systems or machines with the
latest, future oriented, modular and industry suited technologies and to sell
that special production technology to industries such as the tobacco industry
and their respective supplying, packaging and fine paper industries.

IPM is a
high-tech engineering company with a team of specialized, highly skilled
technician and engineer who, with competent partners, develop, design and
produce electrostatic or laser perforation units and optical online porosity
control technology for global sale and for potential customers as ready-to-use
projects. Qualification, training and technology transfer for the technical and
manufacturing personnel are an essential part of our services as well as for a
close and prosperous long-term cooperation.

The
founder of IPM, Mr. Werner Grosse, has been working since 1979 as an
application, engineer side and project manager in the international field of
applied electrostatic and laser perforation as well in optical online porosity
measurement for the tobacco and fine paper refinement industry. During his
professional career and collaboration in numbered research assignments he
initiated more than 46 inventions, among them more than 34 national and
international patents, also outside of EU and in China as well. Thanks to
patented technologies and production processes, new generations of refinement
procedures, perforation machines and optical online porovision control systems
could have been developed, including a world wide new optical dyne control
process for plastic films and foils. This also includes specific product
characteristics, properties and application fields for Nano or Micro perforated
papers, packaging or medical membrane products.

After he
became a self employer in 1992, the
MPE Micro Perforation Engineering GmbH was established in 1993. This resulted
in an expansion of the electrostatic perforation technology apart from the
traditional cigarette and mouthpiece tipping paper sections into application
fields such as filter, packaging, bag, force and non-woven for the paper
refinement and especially for the packaging industry in international markets.
Since 1994, the GmbH belong a company group as international supplier for the
tobacco industry. After many years of prosperous cooperation as shareholder and
managing director, Mr. Grosse left the company at the end of 2001 in order to
enhance innovations with his new engineering company IPM to design new
production machines and products which among other qualities have specific and
unprecedented product characteristics in close cooperation with relatively large
customers, especially in Asia and South America.

Apart from
these business ventures, he has joined national, international organizations
whose aim is to enhance innovative, creative, patent conforming and educational
targets and which international exchanging of technical, economical knowledge.

As a result of his membership in several organisations and due to his work in
the field of electrostatic – ESP- Nano Micro or Laser perforations and optical
online control technology, Mr. Grosse has given many lectures and has published
a great number of technical papers which are available in German, English,
Spanish, French, Italian, Thai and Mandarin.

Mr. Werner Grosse was given the Caiyun Honour from the China Yunnan government
on 19 October 2004 for his expertise as a foreign expert on electrostatic/laser
perforation and optical online porosity control systems and for the added value
of the innovative production technology, achieved by its transfer of knowledge
and the successful cooperation with the Hongta Group, the world wide second
largest cigarette manufacture in China, in reference of excellent technical
production results.